Word: char
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...unless they refute this common idea. If then it does not consist in fine things does knowledge fulfill all the requirements of culture? Many persons are perfect store-houses of condition whom we would not call cultured. The first incentive of knowledge is the desire to apply it, a char acteristic of the Anglo-saxon race, and while I am not disposed to stigmatise it in itself, yet when we come to consider science in itself, utility is not the thing to be taken into account alone...